a strategy, and implemented in a six-week period a 25% across the board cut in income tax rates. believe it or not as a liberal democrat, the idea was to cut taxes to raise revenue, and begin to fund the great society programs. he went to the senate, which was opposed to his ultimate goal of, you know, significant civil rights legislation, and convinced that dean of the senate, who was the budget chairman, that he would commit to a budget that was year-to-year -- not like they do matter what the increase is to grow. he used a weird accounting think of your in washington. a real dollar for dollar reduction in the budget the first time i think in 50 years, when that took place. he got that done. and it required working, sending a limo secretly to the senate to bring the senator, senator byrd i believe it was to the white house, to come in and to be courted, and held up high, and the beloved by virginia, now president of the united states, his junior when they were in the senate together. and then he got the most significant civil rights legislation passed in american history. all within si
